Bond recently tendered its 40% holding in NKM in response to an offer by GMK for all of the outstanding shares of NKM. In the transaction, the Australian affiliates’ shares were exchanged on the basis of one GMK share for three NKM shares. Completion of the share exchange gives Bond a 23% interest in GMK.
The companies are involved in a joint venture with Homestake Gold of Australia which will lead to the development of the Kalgoorlie district Super Pit. This open pit gold mine will be more than three miles long, three-quarters of a mile wide and eventually 1,000 ft deep. At full production the project is expected to produce nearly 700,000 oz of gold per year, according to Homestake.
Bond reports that a new mining plan for the combined Kalgoorlie operations is currently being finalized by the joint venture’s operating company, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines. Construction on a new mill and roaster is 99% complete and initial operating tests are under way.
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